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APA Style Guide: Tweets

This guide explains how to use the APA Style. It includes a short tutorial.

Tweets

Reference: Author Last name, Initials. [screen name]. (Year, Month Day). Title (up to the first 40 words). [Tweet]. Twitter. URL

Example: Taylor, L. K. [@lauraktaylorPHD]. (2020, November 17). It's finally out! #SRCDMonograph 6 years of longitudinal data with 1000 youth/mom dyads + 6 years of macrosystem newspaper coded data + thematic analysis of newspaper content. We find adolescents’ response to direct exposure to sectarianism varies with the political … [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/lauraktaylorPHD/status/1328794107309854733

In-Text-Citation: 

  • (Author Last name, Year)

Example:

  • This longitudinal study examined adolescents’ responses to sectarianism (Taylor, 2020).

 

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